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Auction: 21041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part II
Lot: 664

Missent To or Mail Via Jamaica
1870 (30 July) mourning envelope (central vertical fold) from Hunter's Hill, New South Wales "p Wonga Wonga" via Panama and St. Thomas to Nevis, twice rated "4", both deleted and showing a fine strike of the very rare "Missent to/Jamaica." TR7 handstamp (Proud 130), despatch and Panama (19.10) datestamps on face, Sydney, St. Thomas (23.10), Kingston (24.10) and arrival double-arc (2.11) datestamps on reverse, one 6d. from the original franking remains. Believed one of only two recorded examples of this handstamp. Photo

Note: A cover from Trinidad with the same handstamp is listed on page 117 of the Foster handbook and was noted then as the only recorded example

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